The Boston Globe, 9 April 2016:
The GOP must stop Trump
DONALD J. TRUMP’S VISION for the future of our nation is as deeply disturbing as it is profoundly un-American.
It is easy to find historical antecedents. The rise of demagogic strongmen is an all too common phenomenon on our small planet. And what marks each of those dark episodes is a failure to fathom where a leader’s vision leads, to carry rhetoric to its logical conclusion. The satirical front page of this section attempts to do just that, to envision what America looks like with Trump in the White House.
It is an exercise in taking a man at his word. And his vision of America promises to be as appalling in real life as it is in black and white on the page. It is a vision that demands an active and engaged opposition. It requires an opposition as focused on denying Trump the White House as the candidate is flippant and reckless about securing it…..
That’s
not a pretty picture. But then nothing about the billionaire real estate
developer’s quest for the nation’s highest office has been pretty. He winks and
nods at political violence at his rallies. He says he wants to “open up” libel
laws to punish critics in the news media and calls them “scum.” He promised to
shut out an entire class of immigrants and visitors to the United States on the
sole basis of their religion.
The
toxic mix of violent intimidation, hostility to criticism, and explicit
scapegoating of minorities shows a political movement is taking hold in
America. If Trump were a politician running such a campaign in a foreign
country right now, the US State Department would probably be condemning him.....
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